The daily meanderings of a teacher

Tag: Anthony Jay

  • Determining what it is we need to learn

    Bird Droppings November 18, 2013 Determining what it is we need to learn “Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know — and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is…

  • Trying to find where community exists

    Bird Droppings November 17, 2013 Trying to find where community exists For the second time as I get near the end of my doctorial course work I am involved in a class on educational communities which featured all total in the two courses fifteen texts. All of the texts have an under lying theme of…

  • Can we listen through our heart?

    Bird Droppings November 15, 2013 Can we listen through our heart? It has been several years since found on my many excursions to Barnes and Nobles a small book that I would like to share some passages from. I found many of the thoughts and passages to be of significance and for me sharing words…

  • Perhaps I had a vision walking in moonlight

    Bird Droppings November 14, 2013 Perhaps I had a vision walking in moonlight As I walked out in the morning, the two thirds full moon’s glow lit the area. While only just a small part of the moon it was still a beautiful picture presented. There was a sense of light about as I stood…

  • Looking at a cloud

    Bird Droppings November 13, 2013 Looking at a cloud I am still warming my hands as this was the coldest morning of the fall to date. I went out to start my wife’s car and off in the pines a great horned owl called. I stood listening for several minutes focusing on the sound and…

  • Today is day one or so I am told

    Bird Droppings November 12, 2013 Today is day one or so I am told I remember nearly seven years ago as we got closer to the last day in our old house it was actually appropriately to be the last day of the month. Sitting here in my class room thinking back early in the…

  • Gratitude is action as well as words

    Bird Droppings November 11, 2011 Gratitude is action as well as words Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle, 1854 Most mornings I am driving to school…

  • It is not hard being color blind in a world that only sees black and white

    Bird Droppings November 10, 2013 It is not hard being color blind in a world that only sees black and white It has been nearly forty five years, actually more since I found out I was color blind. I had been in college at West Chester State College for my freshmen year back in 1967.…

  • Spirituality is it an uncertain certainty?

    Bird Droppings November 8, 2013 Spirituality is it an uncertain certainty? “When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.” Albert Einstein What…

  • Do we teach or are we taught

    Bird Droppings November 7, 2013 Do we teach or are we taught “The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein So many times when discussing students who are having difficult times an individual teacher’s perspective is all that matters. Recently I was about to thump another teacher in the head…